The Youth's magazine, or Evangelical miscellany1856 |
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... seemed so natural and homelike , and such youthful emotions swelled within my heart , that I could almost have persuaded myself that I had never exchanged its beautiful quiet and rural fragrance , for the noise and smoke of towns and ...
... seemed so natural and homelike , and such youthful emotions swelled within my heart , that I could almost have persuaded myself that I had never exchanged its beautiful quiet and rural fragrance , for the noise and smoke of towns and ...
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... seemed more like a ghost than a mortal being . Don't go out to - night , ' she said . God forgive me ! I pushed her rudely aside . Go I would , I said . Then I will go and spend the time of your absence in prayer to God for you , ' she ...
... seemed more like a ghost than a mortal being . Don't go out to - night , ' she said . God forgive me ! I pushed her rudely aside . Go I would , I said . Then I will go and spend the time of your absence in prayer to God for you , ' she ...
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... seemed to go to certain death . For a mile or so further down , it flowed into a deep mill - pool , where a man only a few days ago had lost his life ; but to go back was to be called a coward for the remainder of my days , and that I ...
... seemed to go to certain death . For a mile or so further down , it flowed into a deep mill - pool , where a man only a few days ago had lost his life ; but to go back was to be called a coward for the remainder of my days , and that I ...
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... seemed to me an apt illustration of the course I was then leading . I was , indeed , madly rushing to the gates of death and hell . Not more surely was the current carrying me away to physical death , than was my ungodliness leading me ...
... seemed to me an apt illustration of the course I was then leading . I was , indeed , madly rushing to the gates of death and hell . Not more surely was the current carrying me away to physical death , than was my ungodliness leading me ...
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... seemed to be in a night- mare ; my legs were deprived of their power , and the cry for help died away directly it was uttered . The horror of that moment no tongue can describe ; shriek after shriek of agony burst from the lips of the ...
... seemed to be in a night- mare ; my legs were deprived of their power , and the cry for help died away directly it was uttered . The horror of that moment no tongue can describe ; shriek after shriek of agony burst from the lips of the ...
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Page 31 - O LORD my God, thou hast made thy servant king instead of David my father : and I am but a little child : I know not how to go out or come in.
Page 34 - And Solomon's wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of the east country, and all the wisdom of Egypt.
Page 137 - gay creature of the elements ' had not taken his place contentedly, where nature had assigned it, as one of the ornamental performers of the time ! His station was with the lilies of the field, which toil not, neither do they spin.
Page 174 - And when the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, saw the mourning in the floor of Atad, they said, This is a grievous mourning to the Egyptians: wherefore the name of it was called Abel-mizraim, which is beyond Jordan.
Page 27 - What is this passing scene? A peevish April day! A little sun — a little rain, And then night sweeps along the plain. And all things fade away.
Page 234 - I held and believed that the sun is the centre of the world and immovable, and that the earth is not the centre and...
Page 186 - Women are armed with fans as men with swords, and sometimes do more execution with them. To the end therefore that ladies may be entire mistresses of the weapon which they bear, I have erected an academy for the training up of young women in the exercise of the fan, according to the most fashionable airs and motions that are now practised at court The ladies who carry fans under me are...
Page 222 - All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way ; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. 7 He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth : he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.
Page 234 - I subject myself to all the pains and punishments which have been decreed and promulgated by the sacred canons and other general and particular constitutions against delinquents of this description. So, may God help me, and His Holy Gospels, which I touch with my own hands, I, the...
Page 31 - As the LORD hath been with my lord the king, even so be he with Solomon, and make his throne greater than the throne of my lord king David.